Scanning Las Vegas tourists in the hopes of spotting the mother who abandoned him as a young child, Walter confronts his own growing sense of self in the wake of new friendships, in a story complemented by graphic-novel inserts.

A 12-year-old aspiring comedian pushes the limits of his lesser talents to travel across the country and honor a dead best friend's dream of performing in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

A professor of German history begins a long journey back into a past she has pushed aside, returning to Germany to reopen the wounds of her own life--as well as that of her mother--as a child living in Nazi Germany.

Relentlessly bullied by St. Ambrose’s queen bee, Greta Stanhope, Sarah Taylor finds an ally in her roommate Ellen, a cigarette-huffing, devil-may-care athlete, and determined not to let Greta break her, finds her world unraveling in ways she could never have imagined when a scandal unfolds, resulting in murder.

Grappling with self-doubt and insecurity as she grows into her teens, Sam, yearning for her climbing coach’s attention, dealing with her father’s absence and raging against her mother’s constant pressure, must decide who she wants to be in the face of what she’s expected to do.

The story--told entirely in emails--of fraternal twins Harry and Matilda Goodman as they fumble into adulthood, telling lies and keeping secrets, and finally confronting their complicated twin-ship.

After witnessing the deaths of his family during the mid-nineteenth-century Irish Potato Famine, Fergus O'Brien leaves Ireland in search of a new life, making his way to Liverpool, Wales, and finally across the Atlantic to Canada and the United States, in a historical novel based on the author's own family history.

Seventeen-year-old Carson Speier is bored of Billings, Montana, and resentful that he has to help his mother take care of his father, a dying alcoholic whom he has not seen in fourteen years--but then he meets Aisha, a beautiful African American girl who has run away from her own difficult family, and together they embark on a journey of discovery that may help them both come to terms with their lives.

Prequel to the adventures of James Bond, 007, introduces the young James when he is just starting boarding school in England and is about to become involved in his first adventure.